Monday, January 10, 2011

Tunisia, the police fired into the crowd "killed fifty demonstrators"

TUNIS - They even fired on the funeral procession, did not hesitate to open fire on the crowd last Saturday in the central-Tunisian, not far from the border with Algeria, took to the streets because they are fed up. "Work and dignity," these are the watchwords of an unprecedented social protest in a country ruled with an iron fist by the eternal president, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

The epicenter of this latest tragic chapter in the "war bread" - the dead would be about fifty, more numerous casualties - two small towns of the interior, and Thala Kesserine, about 300 km south of Tunis. Too much blood to continue to keep it hidden. To repeat the usual old story for tourists, thanks in large part controlled by the information power, that all is well.

And so eventually the government had to admit. Which is already news. "It is true there were clashes and police fired, but only after being attacked with incendiary bombs, sticks and stones." Self-defense, then. As for the victims, according to the Interior Ministry, the figures should be revised downwards.

"I am 8 - late in the evening will admit that there are 14, Ed - 9 wounded." Thala in three, five Kesserine. Also in serious condition two law enforcement officials. Thala in the protests broke out in late Saturday and continued throughout the night. A Kesserine, however, which is thirty miles from Thala, the clashes occurred yesterday morning.

And that the police had orders to use the hard way it is now understood. The first to sound the alarm has been an opposition politician, Ahmed Nejib Chebbi, the historic leader of the democracy that has collected the testimonies of its members in areas of unrest. "According to our information - Chebbi said international agencies - the dead would have a score, which is why I urge the President to put an end to this state of affairs and to declare immediately a ceasefire, which is essential if you want to save other lives innocent, and if we are to ensure the legitimate right to protest.

" Not 8 or 14 or 20, but the balance of those killed in clashes last weekend of fear even in Tunisia would amount to 28. To support the blogger Zied El-Heni, whose website, he says, have already been "obscured" countless times. An awkward, then. According to Zied El-Heni, 17 people were killed in Kesserine, 3 to 8 to Rgeb and Thala, two of them while attending the funeral of other victims.

Among the dead Rgeb also a 12 year old girl who was trying to rescue a wounded man. In this as in all other wars, chasing the goodness of the figures is a difficult task. A late night radio Kalima announced: "The dead are at least fifty." And now - which is right on the numbers the government, the opposition or the blogger - what remains serious is the fact that the police have shot to kill, and she did it.

"The dissent in our country - a confident student who wishes to remain anonymous - is not allowed. I'll explain why no one is willing to speak: do not mess around here, if you end up just inside sgarra. Sometimes it takes only a few words. Take the case of "General" - the nickname of the rapper ventiduenne Hame Ben-Amor, who was arrested a few days ago, Ed - where in the world has been put in jail for writing a song, wanting to say all that, it was not even so bad? ".

Ben Ali did not like and he can not stand the criticism and that was enough because even in 30 agents, as reported by the brother of Ben-Amor, went to the house of the young rapper - released in late last night - to handcuff him . "State of the Family in the hands of the president and those of his wife Laila and his ten brothers," read the classified report in 2008 the U.S.

ambassador to the White House made it clear in recent days by WikiLeaks. How to tell a kind of robbery committed against the country. Findings revealed that once hard Washington has not even tried to correct. There must be the truth, then: what is certain is that unemployment is at 14 percent, among young people over 30.

Work there is not, thanks to the global economic crisis, and what little there is managed nepotistic. And woe to protest. A journalist, who also asked not to be named, tells the story of the Gafsa mining area, rich in phosphates. And the protests of trade unionists demanding more jobs for local people, opposed by the police first and then ended up in court with sentences of eight years to those who dared to speak up.

Will Ben Ali, riding for 23 years, having already twice the Constitution to its proper use and consumption, to have the match won again? Maybe so, but for how long? Tunisia seems to come almost to a point of no return. Such as Algeria, on the other hand, where the government's measures to moderation prices seem to have produced some effect.

The districts most affected by the protests of recent days, those shops are still intact, are struggling to raise their shutters, but the tension is significantly decreased. Remains concerned that the tax cuts on food products hardly stop the young protagonists of the uprising inspired by a deep social malaise.

The Minister spoke of "criminal acts" with "no link with the socio-economic situation." According to him would be "young people without hope." That may be true, although it would be necessary to ask why. While in Algiers, the situation becomes normal, it takes stock of the four days of protests and the devastation that rocked the country.

According to official figures would be three demonstrators dead, more than 800 injured. In addition there are a man of 35 gunmen killed yesterday in Tiaret, in western Iraq, while trying to defend his liquor store, and a fifth victim, a taxi driver for 65 years, died in Annaba after inhaled the smoke of tear gas.

And anger at the killing of a young protesters shot dead by an agent, has always reported yesterday in the square, in Ain Hadijel, about six thousand people.
Posted by Manlio Gandolfi at 9:16 AM
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